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aardwolf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2005-07-23

Posts: 305

videocard hotter in text mode

I have a temperature sensor on the heatsink of my video card. It's a passively cooled geforce 7600 card.

If I leave my PC on while it's in the linux console (fullscreen linux console, at 640*480 resolution that is, xorg isn't running), then it shows 41°C.

If I leave my PC on while in KDE (so graphics instead of text mode), then it shows 35°C.

Any ideas why linux console in text mode in standard low resolution, makes the videocard hotter, than KDE at 1280*1024?

Last edited by aardwolf (2008-04-26 15:35:01)

neowolf

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 105

Re: videocard hotter in text mode

My best guess might be that your card's automagically scaling the signal at lower resolutions up to your monitor's native if you're using DVI?

aardwolf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2005-07-23

Posts: 305

Re: videocard hotter in text mode

Hmm, that's very possible since I'm using DVI indeed. I thought it was the monitor that did this scaling, so that isn't true and it's the videocard that's doing that???